Proclus: On the Sphere; Cleomedes: On the World; Aratus: Phenomena

...pleasant myths concerning the translation of certain images into the heaven. He wished these to be called phainomena appearances—because those constellations, which they are said to be, do not exist in reality, but appear delineated in that manner due to the order and position of the stars following one another. Finally, that DIONYSIUS Apher Dionysius the African, also known as Dionysius Periegetes puts the finishing touch on this work, who (as I said) having transferred those aforementioned divisions from the heaven to the earth, cultivates the same things below. That is, he shows which nature of the soil, which peoples, kingdoms, seas, islands, mountains, fields, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, and other things of this kind inhabit the habitable part of the earth, and under which climate and parallel of the heaven each is situated. And these are indeed